Comments on: Three useful Firefox 3 'awesome bar' hacks

Instead of disabling it altogether, you can make Mozilla Firefox's Smart Location Bar more or less awesome than before. Webware shows you how to better control what URLs get listed.

[naterandrews]

Why does everyone need yet MORE ways to help them cover their tracks? (Especially shady husbands). Thank you technology for inventing more helpful ways for people to keep secrets.

[BEETROOT]

Secrets are not necessarily bad things. I'm shopping for a birthday present for my girlfriend, and need to clear my history every time.

[naterandrews]

Why does everyone need yet MORE ways to help them cover their tracks? (Especially shady husbands). Thank you technology for inventing more helpful ways for people to keep secrets.

[Kakkoister]

Don't bother with "Hide Unvisited"

If you want the old Firefox 2 URL Bar functionality back, install this add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Does what Hide Unvisited does exactly, plus a whole lot more.

[RicktheBrick]

I click on the down arrow and see that 7 of the 12 are already duplicates of what is on the line below it and they are duplicated in the most visited area. The ones I want that I visit not so much are in my sidebar. At least keep the ones in my bookmark line out of it as I can go to them a lot easier by clicking on one of them.

[gbernhard]

Hey naterandrews, did you ever think that maybe the "shady" husband purchased something for his loving wife and he wants it to remain a secret? Think outside the box!

[AlmightyPod]

After reading #3, I couldn't help but wonder how Mozilla could forget to put in a method to remove sites from the address bar. So I looked at my keyboard and saw a "Del" button. On a hunch, I figured this might actually delete a site from the bar. I highlighted the offending site and pressed that "Del" key. To my surprise the site no longer showed itself until it was re-visited.

[crankycoyote]

Uhhh,not really.If you pay attention,you'll find the " offending" site will show it's ugly head again as soon as you restart the browser.And will continue to do so,unless you fix it in this fashion: got to about:config,ignore the silly warning,scroll down to: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the stupid thing to 0. That will clear the foolish history "feature". Yes,That,s what Mozilla calls it.A "feature".While I am a longtime firefox user and fan,it seems that every new version has some really,and I mean REALLY stupid "features".I do appreciate the fact that it's absolutely much faster than the previous versions, though. Now if we could just get our favorite extensions and themes compatible.........yet again......

[crankycoyote]

Uhhh,not really.If you pay attention,you'll find the " offending" site will show it's ugly head again as soon as you restart the browser.And will continue to do so,unless you fix it in this fashion: got to about:config,ignore the silly warning,scroll down to: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the stupid thing to 0. That will clear the foolish history "feature". Yes,That,s what Mozilla calls it.A "feature".While I am a longtime firefox user and fan,it seems that every new version has some really,and I mean REALLY stupid "features".I do appreciate the fact that it's absolutely much faster than the previous versions, though. Now if we could just get our favorite extensions and themes compatible.........yet again......

[AlmightyPod]

I tried restarting. The site still didn't show...

[AlmightyPod]

You can also go into your browser history and manually delete the sites you don't want to show. I just find it easier to delete them from the list.

[frakme]

I precede my tags with "\" as in "\PROGRAMMING" and "\NETWORKS" so I can control when I what displays. Typing "NET" shows all urls, titles and descriptions with "net" in the name. "\NET" shows only things tagged with "\NET" since the "\" is not in URLs and not likely to be in the title or description.

[marym_40]

Thanks for this. I found this to be very annoying